Dengfeng Sun

Dengfeng Sun

2009 - Professor, Associate Head of Gambaro Graduate Program of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Degrees

B.Eng., Tsinghua University, Precision Instruments and Mechanology, 2000
M.S., The Ohio State University, Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2002
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2008

Contact

701 W. Stadium Ave.
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2045
Office: ARMS 2031
Office Phone: (765) 494-5718

Interests

Distributed control, optimization and autonomy
Resilient network control and optimization
Optimal resource management in large-scale infrastructure systems
Drone technology and smart infrastructure systems
Advanced Air Mobility, Air traffic control and management, Air transportation and intelligent transportation system

Research Areas

Autonomy and Control
Aerospace Systems

Publications

Journal publications

(See recent and full list here.)

Control Protocol Design and Analysis for Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management, Jiazhen Zhou, Dawei Sun, Inseok Hwang, and Dengfeng Sun, IEEE Transactions on Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Accepted in April 2021.

Distributed State Estimation for Stochastic Linear Hybrid Systems with Finite-Time Fusion, Bin Du, Inseok Hwang, and Dengfeng Sun, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Accepted in March 2021.

Parallelized Active Information Gathering using Multi-Sensor Network for Environment Monitoring, Bin Du, Kun Qian, Christian Claudel, and Dengfeng Sun, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Accepted in February 2021.

UAV trajectory planning with probabilistic geo-fence via iterative chance-constrained optimization, Bin Du, Jun Chen, Dengfeng Sun, Satyanarayana Manyam, and David Casbeer, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Accepted in January 2021.

Resilient UAV Traffic Congestion Control using Fluid Queuing Models, Jiazhen Zhou, Li Jin, Xiao Wang, and Dengfeng Sun, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Early Access. 2020. doi:10.1109/TITS.2020.3004406.

Vertical Protection Level for GNSS Fault Detection Using Parameterized Quadratic Programming, Teng-Yao Yang and Dengfeng Sun, AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, vol.17, no.11, November 2020. doi:10.2514/1.I010799.

Improving the Convergence of Distributed Gradient Descent via Inexact Average Consensus, Bin Du, Jiazhen Zhou, and Dengfeng Sun, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, vol.185, no.2, pp.504-521, 2020. doi:10.1007/s10957-020-01648-3.

Distributed Data Fusion for On-Scene Signal Sensing with a Multi-UAV System, Bin Du, Ruijiu Mao, Nan Kong, and Dengfeng Sun, IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, vol.7, no.3, pp.1330-1341, Sept 2020. doi: 10.1109/TCNS.2020.2975228

Global Navigation Satellite Systems Fault Detection and Exclusion: a Parameterized Quadratic Programming Approach, Teng-Yao Yang and Dengfeng Sun, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol.56, no.4, pp.2862-2871, Aug. 2020. doi:10.1109/TAES.2019.2956624

The Probabilistic Vehicle Routing Problem with Service Guarantees, Jun Chen, Lijian Chen, Wen-Chyuan Chiang, Robert Russell, and Dengfeng Sun, Transportation Research???Part E, vol.111, pp.149-164, ISSN 1366-5545, 2018. doi: 10.1016/j.tre.2018.01.012.

Stochastic Ground Delay Program Planning in a Metroplex, Jun Chen and Dengfeng Sun, AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, vol.41, no.1, pp.231-239, 2018. doi: 10.2514/1.G002964

Air Traffic Flow Management under Uncertainty Using Chance-Constrained Optimization, Jun Chen, Lijian Chen, and Dengfeng Sun, Transportation Research???Part B: Methodological, vol.102, pp.124-141, 2017. doi: 10.1016/j.trb.2017.05.014

Modeling, Optimization, and Operation of Large-Scale Air Traffic Flow Management on Spark, Jun Chen, Yi Cao, and Dengfeng Sun, AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, vol.14, no.9, pp.504-516, 2017. doi: 10.2514/1.I010533

Improvement of a Distributed Algorithm for Solving Linear Equations, Xuan Wang, Shaoshuai Mou, and Dengfeng Sun, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol.64, no.4, pp.3113-3117, April 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2016.2636119

Optimization of Airport Surface Operations Under Uncertainty, Christabelle Bosson and Dengfeng Sun, AIAA Journal of Air Transportation, vol.24, no.3, pp.84-92, 2016.

Dual Averaging with Adaptive Random Projection for Solving Evolving Distributed Optimization Problems, Shreyas Vathul Subramanian, Daniel DeLaurentis, and Dengfeng Sun, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, vol.170, no.2, pp.493-511, doi:10.1007/s10957-016-0932-z, 2016.

Dynamic Stochastic Model for Converging Inbound Air Traffic, Jun Chen, Dan DeLaurentis, and Dengfeng Sun, AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, vol.39, no.10, pp.2273-2283, 2016. doi: 10.2514/1.G001379

Large-scale and Big Data Optimization Based on Hadoop, Yi Cao and Dengfeng Sun, Big Data Optimization: Recent Developments and Challenges, vol.18, pp.375-389, May 2016. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-30265-2_16

A quantitative and systematic methodology to investigate energy consumption issues in multimodal intercity transportation systems, Lili Du, Srinivas Peeta, Peng Wei, and Dengfeng Sun, International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology, vol.4, no.2, pp.229-256, 2015.

Migrating Large-Scale Air Traffic Modeling to the Cloud, Yi Cao and Dengfeng Sun, AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information System, vol.12, no.2, pp.257-266, 2015. doi: http:arc.aiaa.orgdoiabs10.25141.I010150

Evaluation of Fuel Benefits Depending on Continuous Descent Approach Procedures, Yi Cao, Li Jin, Nguyen V. P. Nguyen, Steven Landry, Dengfeng Sun, and Joseph Post, Air Traffic Control Quarterly, vol.22, no.3, pp.1-25, 2015

Decentralized Control Framework and Stability Analysis for Networked Control Systems, Ahmed Elmahdi, Ahmad F. Taha, Dengfeng Sun, and Jitesh H. Panchal, ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, vol.137, no.5, 051006-051006-11, 2015, doi:10.1115/1.4028789

Unknown Input Observer Design and Analysis for Networked Control Systems, Ahmad F Taha, Ahmed Elmahdi, Jitesh H. Panchal, and Dengfeng Sun, International Journal of Control, vol.88, no.5, pp.920-934, 2015.

Algebraic Connectivity Maximization for Air Transportation Networks, Peng Wei, Gregoire Spiers, and Dengfeng Sun, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol.15, no.2, pp.685-698, April 2014.

An Efficient Routing Strategy on Spatial Scale-free Networks, Xiangmin Guan, Xuejun Zhang, Inseok Hwang, and Dengfeng Sun, International Journal of Modern Physics C, vol.25, no.7, 2014, doi:10.1142/S012918311450017X

An airway network flow assignment approach based on an efficient multi-objective optimization framework, Xiangmin Guan, Xuejun Zhang, Yanbo Zhu, Dengfeng Sun, and Jiaxing Lei, Special Issue on Modeling, Control, and Optimization in Aeronautical Engineering, The Scientific World Journal, Article ID 302615, 2014.

Heuristics for Synthesizing Robust Networks with a Diameter Constraint, Harsha Nagarajan, Peng Wei, Sivakumar Rathinam and Dengfeng Sun, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, vol.2014, Article ID 326963, 11 pages, 2014, doi:10.11552014326963.

Purposeful underestimation of demands for the airline seat allocation with incomplete information, Lijian Chen, Dengfeng Sun, Wen-Chyuan Chiang, and Shuguang He, International Journal of Revenue Management, vol.8,No.1, pp.34-55, 2014.

Algebraic Connectivity Maximization of an Air Transportation Network: The Flight Routes??? Addition/Deletion Problem, Peng Wei, Lijian Chen, and Dengfeng Sun, Transportation Research???Part E, vol.61, pp.13-27, January 2014.

Total Unimodularity and Decomposition Method for Large-Scale Air Traffic Cell Transmission Model, Peng Wei, Yi Cao, and Dengfeng Sun, Transportation Research???Part B, vol.53, pp.1-16, July 2013

Optimal Metroplex Routing Paradigm and its Performance Analysis, Peng Wei, Taehoon Kim, Simon Han, Steve Landry, Dengfeng Sun, and Dan DeLaurentis, AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, vol.36, no.4, pp.1221-1225, 2013, doi: 10.2514/1.56793

The Effect of Queueing Strategy on Network Traffic, Xiangmin Guan, Xuejun Zhang, Dengfeng Sun, and Shaoting Tang, Communications in Theoretical Physics, vol.60, no.4, pp.496-502, 2013

Workspace Quality Analysis and Application for Completely Restrained 3-DOF Planar Cable-Driven Parallel Manipulators, Xiaoqiang Tang, Lewei Tang, Jinsong Wang, and Dengfeng Sun, Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology, vol.27, no.8, pp.2391-2399, 2013, doi: 10.1007/s12206-013-0624-7

The Structure and Dimensional Design of a Reconfigurable PKM, Xiaoqiang Tang, Dengfeng Sun, and Zhufeng Shao, International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, Sumeet S Aphale (Ed.), ISBN: 1729-8806, 2013, doi: 10.5772/54696

Benefit and Tradeoff Analysis of Continuous Descent Approach in Normal Traffic Conditions, Yi Cao, Dan DeLaurentis, and Dengfeng Sun, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, vol.2325, pp.22-33, June 2013, doi: 10.3141/2325-03

Investigation of Potential Fuel Savings due to Continuous Descent Approach, Li Jin, Yi Cao, and Dengfeng Sun, AIAA Journal of Aircraft, vol.50, no.3, pp.807-816, 2013, doi: 10.2514/1.C032000

Greedy Heuristic Aided Mixed Integer Linear Programming Approach for Arrival Scheduling, Yi Cao, Sivakumar Rathinam, and Dengfeng Sun, AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, vol.10, no.7, pp.323-336, 2013, doi: 10.2514/1.I010030

An Integral Function Approach to the Exponential Stability of Linear Time-Varying Systems, Yu Yao, Kai Liu, Dengfeng Sun, Venkataramanan Balakrishnan and Jian Guo, International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems, vol.10, no.6, pp.1096-1101, 2012

A Parallel Computing Framework for Large-scale Traffic Flow Optimization, Yi Cao and Dengfeng Sun, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol.13, no.14, pp.1855-1864, 2012

Ancillary Service Capacity Optimization for Both Electric Power Suppliers and Independent System Operator, Lijian Chen, Dengfeng Sun, and Guang Li, Energy Systems, vol.3, no.2, pp.109-132, 2012

Improved State Feedback Controller Synthesis for Piecewise-Linear Systems, Kai Liu, Yu Yao, Dengfeng Sun and Venkataramanan Balakrishnan, International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control, vol.10, no.8, pp.6945-6957, 2012

Configuration Synthesis for Fully Restrained 7-Cable-Driven Manipulators, Xiaoqiang Tang, Lewei Tang, Jinsong Wang, and Dengfeng Sun, International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, vol.9, no.142, pp.1-10, 2012

A Hierarchical Flight Planning Framework for Air Traffic Management, Wei Zhang, Maryam Kamgarpour, Dengfeng Sun, and Claire J. Tomlin, the Proceedings of the IEEE, vol.100, no.1, pp.179-194, 2012

A Link Transmission Model for Air Traffic Flow Management, Yi Cao and Dengfeng Sun, AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, vol.34, no.5, pp.1342-1351, 2011

A Dual Decomposition Method for Sector Capacity Constrained Traffic Flow Optimization, Dengfeng Sun, Alexis Clinet and Alexandre Bayen, Transportation Research Part B, vol.45, no.6, pp.880-902, 2011, doi: 10.1016/j.trb.2011.03.004

Disaggregation Method for an Aggregate Traffic Flow Management Model, Dengfeng Sun, Banava Sridhar and Shon Grabbe, AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, vol.33, no.3, pp.666-676, May-June 2010, doi: 10.2514/1.47469

Multicommodity Eulerian-Lagrangian Large-Capacity Cell Transmission Model for en route traffic, Dengfeng Sun and Alexandre Bayen, AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, vol.31, no.3, pp.616-628, May-June 2008, doi:10.2514/1.31717

Comparison of the performance of four Eulerian network flow models for strategic Air Traffic Management, Dengfeng Sun, Issam Strub and Alexandre Bayen, AIMS Journal on Networks and Heterogeneous Media, 2(4), pp. 569-594, December 2007, doi:10.3934/nhm.2009.2.569

Conference Proceedings, Presentations, Invited Lectures

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Gazebo-Based Simulation Environment Integration for UAS, Jerry Gu, Aaron Guo, Hanyao Hu, Linzhe Wang, and Dengfeng Sun, 2021 AIAA AVIATION Forum and Exposition, Aug 2-6, Virtual, 2021.

Multi-Robot Dynamical Source Seeking in Unknown Environments, Bin Du, Kun Qian, Hassan Iqbal, Christian Claudel, and Dengfeng Sun, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 30-June 5, Xi'an, China, 2021.

Assessing potential urban air mobility traffic density in a metropolitan area like Chicago, Jorge Martinez Zapico, William A. Crossley, and Dengfeng Sun, AIAA SciTech Forum, Jan 11-15, Virtual, 2021.

Distributed State Estimation for Stochastic Linear Hybrid Systems, Bin Du, Lian Yuan, Dengfeng Sun, Inseok Hwang, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Dec 14-18, Jeju Island, South Korea, 2020.

Multi-dimensional, multi-agent pathfinding for autonomous flight planning with airspace deconfliction, David Russell, Michael Liquori, Chien-Tsung Lu, Dengfeng Sun, and Fred Meyer, The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) XPONENTIAL 2020, Oct 5-8, Virtual, 2020.

Cooperative Air-Ground Vehicle Routing Using Chance-Constrained Optimization, Bin Du, Dengfeng Sun, Satyanarayana Gupta Manyam, and David W. Casbeer, American Control Conference, Denver, CO, USA, 2020.

Optimizing a UAV-based Emergency Medical Service Network for Trauma Injury Patients, Ruijiu Mao, Bin Du, Dengfeng Sun, and Nan Kong, IEEE 15th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) (CASE 2019), Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2019.

Cell Coverage of UAV Millimeter Wave Communication Network Subject to Wind, Jingchao Bao, Dengfeng Sun and Husheng Li, IEEE GLOBECOM, Waikoloa, Hawaii, December 9-13, 2019.

Motion Sensor Aided Beam Tracking in Mobile Devices of Millimeter-wave Communication, Jingchao Bao, Dengfeng Sun and Husheng Li, IEEE International Conference on Communications, Kansas City, MO, May 2018.

Improvement of a Distributed Algorithm for Solving Linear Equations, Xuan Wang, Shaoshuai Mou, and Dengfeng Sun, American Control Conference, Seattle, WA, May 2017.

Optimal Flight Trajectories to Minimize Noise during Landing, Janav P. Udani, Kshitij Mall, Michael J. Grant, and Dengfeng Sun, AIAA SciTech Forum, Grapevine, TX, Jan. 2017.

Optimization of Airport Surface Operations Under Uncertainty, Christabelle Bosson and Dengfeng Sun, AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference, https:doi.org10.25141.D0013, Jun. 2015.

An Optimal General Purpose Scheduler for Networked Control Systems, Ahmed Elmahdi, Ahmad Taha, Dengfeng Sun, and Jitesh Panchal, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, San Diego, CA, October 5-8, 2014.

Networked Unknown Input Observer Analysis and Design for Time-Delay Systems, Ahmad Taha, Ahmed Elmahdi, Jitesh Panchal, and Dengfeng Sun, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, San Diego, CA, October 5-8, 2014.

Stability Analysis of Networked Control Systems with Unknown Inputs, Ahmad Taha, Ahmed Elmahdi, Jitesh Panchal, and Dengfeng Sun, 52nd Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, UIUC, IL, October 1-3, 2014.

Decentralized Control Framework for Networked Control Systems, Ahmed Elmahdi, Ahmad Taha, Dengfeng Sun, the 11th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, Taichung, Taiwan, June 18-20, 2014.

An Aggregate Air Traffic Forecasting Model subject to Stochastic Inputs, Christabelle Bosson and Dengfeng Sun, AIAA Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control, AIAA Paper 2013-5032, Aug. 2013.

An Enhancement to the Linear Dynamic System Model for Air Traffic Forecasting, Yi Cao, Dengfeng Sun, and Lingsong Zhang, AIAA Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control, AIAA Paper 2013-5030, Aug. 2013.

Vertical Grid Shifting Approach to the Development of Contrail Reduction Strategies with Sector Capacity Constraints, Peng Wei, Banavar Sridhar, Neil Chen, and Dengfeng Sun, AIAA Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control, AIAA Paper 2013-5177, Aug. 2013.

Weighted Clustering Coefficient Maximization For Air Transportation Networks, Julien Ponton, Peng Wei, and Dengfeng Sun, European Control Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, July 17-19, 2013

Time Delay Oriented Reliability Analysis of Avionics Full Duplex Switched Ethernet, Shaoping Wang, Jian Shi, Dengfeng Sun, and Mileta Tomovic, the 8th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, Melbourne, Australia, June 19-21, 2013

Air Traffic Prediction Based on the Kernel Density Estimation, Yi Cao, Dengfeng Sun, and Lingsong Zhang, American Control Conference, Washington D.C., June 17-19, 2013

Wireless sensor network data collection by connected cooperative UAVs, Peng Wei, Quanquan Gu, and Dengfeng Sun, American Control Conference, Washington D.C., June 17-19, 2013

Improving Energy Consumption Efficiency in Multimodal Transportation Systems, Lili Du, Peng Wei, Srinivas Peeta, and Dengfeng Sun, the XIII World Conference on Transport Research, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 15-18, 2013.

Evaluation of Stream Air Traffic Operations by Adapting Dynamic Density Complexity Measure, Chittayong Surakitbanharn, Peng Wei, Steve Landry, and Dengfeng Sun, the 12th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference and the 14th AIAAISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference/, Indianapolis, IN, September 17-19, 2012.

Algebraic Connectivity Optimization of Large Scale and Directed Air Transportation Network, Gregoire Spiers, Peng Wei, and Dengfeng Sun, the 13th IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation Systems, Sofia, Bulgaria, September 12-14, 2012.

A Linear Programming Approach to the Development of Contrail Reduction Strategies Satisfying Operationally Feasible Constraints, Peng Wei, Banavar Sridhar, Neil Chen, and Dengfeng Sun, AIAA Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control, AIAA Paper 2012-4754, Aug. 2012.

An Efficient Binary Integer Programming Method for Scheduling Arriving Aircraft Following RNAV STAR Procedures, Yi Cao and Dengfeng Sun, the 4th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics, San Francisco, CA, July 21-25, 2012

Stochastic Analysis of Air-Traffic System and Its Corresponding Application in Parameters Prediction, Qianli Ma, Yan Wan, and Dengfeng Sun, American Control Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 27-29, 2012

Algebraic Connectivity Optimization of the Air Transportation Network, Gregoire Spiers, Peng Wei, and Dengfeng Sun, American Control Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 27-29, 2012

An Optimal Routing Paradigm For Flexible Flights, Peng Wei, Taehoon Kim, Steven Landry, Dengfeng Sun, and Daniel DeLaurentis, American Control Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 27-29, 2012

Optimal Sequential Backward Flow Saturation For Cell Transmission Model, Peng Wei, Amine Meksoub, and Dengfeng Sun, American Control Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 27-29, 2012

Probabilistic Collocation Method in Solving Eulerian Model for Air Traffic Flow Management, Qianli Ma, Yan Wan, and Dengfeng Sun, Infotech@Aerospace, Garden Grove, CA, June 19-21, 2012

Air transportation network robustness optimization under limited legs itinerary constraint, Harsha Nagarajan, Peng Wei, Sivakumar Rathinam, and Dengfeng Sun, the 5th International Conference on Research in Air Transportation (ICRAT 2012), Berkeley, CA, May 22-25, 2012

Workload Comparison Between Sectorized Air Traffic Control and Stream Management, Peng Wei, Steve Landry, and Dengfeng Sun, Integrated Communications, Navigation, and Surveillance (ICNS) Conference, Herndon, VA, April 24-26, 2012

Total Unimodularity and Degeneracy-Aware Dantzig-Wolfe Decomposition for Large Capacity Cell Transmission Model, Peng Wei and Dengfeng Sun, the 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, Orlando, FL, Dec. 12-15, 2011.

Adaptive Control Design for Piecewise-Linear Differential Inclusion with Parameter Uncertainty, Kai Liu, Yu Yao, Dengfeng Sun, and Venkataramanan Balakrishnan, the 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, Orlando, FL, Dec. 12-15, 2011.

Controller Synthesis for a class of Uncertain Nonlinear Systems: A Piecewise Linear Differential Inclusions Approach, Kai Liu, Dengfeng Sun, Venkataramanan Balakrishnan, and Yu Yao, IEEE Multi-conference on Systems and Control, Denver, CO, Sep. 28-30, 2011.

Weighted Algebraic Connectivity: An Application to Airport Transportation Network, Peng Wei and Dengfeng Sun, the 18th IFAC World Congress, Milan, Italy, Aug.-Sep. 2011.

A Rescheduling Method for Conflict-free Continuous Descent Approach, Yi Cao, Sivakumar Rathinam and Dengfeng Sun, AIAA Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control, AIAA Paper 2011-6218, Aug. 2011.

Routing Flexible Traffic into Metroplex, Peng Wei, Jit-Tat Chen, Dominick Andrisani and Dengfeng Sun, AIAA Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control, AIAA Paper 2011-6365, Aug. 2011.

PWA State Feedback Controller Synthesis for Piecewise-Linear Systems, Kai Liu, Yu Yao, Dengfeng Sun, and Venkataramanan Balakrishnan, the 30th Chinese Control Conference, Yantai, China, Jul. 22-24, 2011.

A Parallel Computing Platform for Air Traffic Flow Management, Yi Cao and Dengfeng Sun, American Control Conference, San Francisco, CA, June-July 2011.

Decentralized Flight Path Planning for Air Traffic Management, Wei Zhang, Maryam Kamgarpour, Dengfeng Sun, and Claire J. Tomlin, American Control Conference, San Francisco, CA, June-July 2011.

Evaluation of Continuous Descent Approach as a Standard Terminal Airspace Operation, Yi Cao, Tatsuya Kotegawa, Dengfeng Sun, Daniel DeLaurentis and Joseph Post, the 9th USAEurope Air Traffic Management (ATM) Seminar/, Berlin, Germany, June 14-17 2011.

Performance Comparison of Two Aggregate Air Traffic Models, Yi Cao and Dengfeng Sun, AIAA Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control, AIAA Paper 2010-7851, Aug. 2010.

Traffic Flow Management using Aggregate Flow Models and the Development of Disaggregation Methods, Dengfeng Sun, Banava Sridhar and Shon Grabbe, AIAA Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control, AIAA Paper 2009-6007, Aug. 2009

Integration of an aggregate flow model with a traffic flow simulator, Robert Hoffman, Dengfeng Sun, Alexis Clinet, Stephen Augustine, Jason Burke, Rohit Viswanathan and Alexandre Bayen, AIAA Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control, AIAA Paper 2008-6325, Aug. 2008

A weighted-graph approach for airspace dynamic configuration, Stephane Martinez, Gano Chatterji, Dengfeng Sun and Alexandre Bayen, AIAA Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control, AIAA Paper 2007-6448, Aug. 2007.

Eulerian trilogy, Dengfeng Sun, Sam Yang, Issam Strub, Alexandre Bayen, Banavar Sridhar, and Kapil Sheth, AIAA Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control, AIAA Paper 2006-6227, Aug. 2006.

MILP control of aggregate Eulerian network airspace models, Charles-Antoine Robelin, Dengfeng Sun, Guoyuan Wu and Alexandre Bayen, Proceedings of the 2006 American Control Conference, Minneapolis, MN, June 14-June 16, 2006, pp. 5257-5262, doi:10.1109/ACC.2006.1657558

Roadmap Based Pursuit-Evasion and Collision Avoidance, Volkan Isler, Dengfeng Sun, and Shankar Sastry. Robotics: Science and Systems, 2005.

Methodological calibration of the cell transmission model, Laura Munoz, Xiaotian Sun, Dengfeng Sun, Gabriel Gomes, and Roberto Horowitz, Proceedings of the 2004 American Control Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, June 30-July 2, 2004, pp. 798-803.
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